A movie that tells the reality and the psychology of people is still suitable for the current life

Alessandro 2021-11-13 08:01:24

We only watch TV networks and simply believe them. We ignore the reality and only believe in what the news or authorities tell us. We just want to stay in our own world. We are easy to be agitated, follow but forget to think, and there is no one. Tell us how to think. We are afraid of career, we want to have spiritual leaders, we want someone to tell us what to do and how to do it, we don’t want an unstable life, we want to hear good news or bad news from others but harmless to ourselves, we Like what others say we like to hear, what we think, what we dare not say but dare to think and want to do instead of facts. We huddled in a small world, waiting for others to come forward, waiting to reconcile at any time, looking forward to other people's jokes, and often we are already deeply caught in the drama.

Although many things are complicated but there is no difference in essence, I still remember when the subordinates reported the plot summary to Diana: the role of the law school has a stubborn and benevolent former supreme judge, a doctor, a beautiful female graduate student and a local talented but sometimes An opportunistic prosecutor; the role of the policewoman includes a benevolent and stubborn deputy police officer who is always pressured by the chief, a strong alcoholic detective who believes that women should stay in the kitchen honestly, and a smart and beautiful anti-feminist Young policewoman; there is a stubborn and benevolent editor who talks about investigative reporters... It seems habitual. The boss is generally stubborn, but also benevolent. As long as he is not a big boss, how else the protagonist will use his hands and feet. The stubbornness is to set off the protagonist. Let the protagonist go to reform. The conflict between the characters, the compromise and integration, and how much integration is the plot. There is no difference.

The pressure of life may be because of the Diana in the film-we are a generation who grew up watching TV and the Internet, thinking that reality is just like what is shown on TV, or that we understand real life from TV and regard reality as TV. (There is a strong breath of yy suddenly) Lost the ability to feel and express emotions. Being confused, evading, and searching between the real and structured world, and being timid to hurt others with sharp words or indifferent or indifferent to let others leave, live in their own small world, and reluctant to leave. I resist change in my heart, and sometimes accept it on the surface, but in the end I still don’t want to change.

Having faith makes people feel at ease. Howard in the film thinks that there is a voice asking him to say, and he was later brainwashed by boss Jason as a belief to continue to say, no matter what, he feels at ease, (although crazy), he tells the facts and speaks the voice of the people, at least he lives You have to firmly believe that you are right and not be at a loss for decadence and waste. In some ways it also inspired others. Of course, this also made me think of "Gulliver's Travels", where the author used the protagonist Gulliver to satirize reality and finally took the protagonist as the object of satire. So whether Howard’s shaping is the same is a matter of opinion, I think there are similarities. The director or screenwriter used Howard’s words to point out that we are crazy and can’t stand this anymore; economic depression; inflation; food is not suitable for eating; violence occurs frequently and people go from anger at first to becoming accustomed to later; people should act; In the end, Howard saw God and promoted business transactions is undoubtedly inconsistent with the previous words and deeds. By the way, Jason’s positioning of business is actually reasonable. The world is indeed an ecosystem in terms of economy, with cycles and survival of the fittest. Economic globalization makes it easier for multinational companies to obtain benefits.


Although the times have changed and concepts have always changed, people's psychology is difficult to change. The instinctual behaviors that have been cultivated since ancient times are deeply rooted in human reason. Driven by the hands of the living environment and the background of the times, instinctive behaviors are more or less manifested, so our ways of facing things are often the same.

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  • Domenica 2022-04-22 07:01:09

    8.9/10. ① Reveals the era of entertainment to the death. The main line is that the TV station promotes a lunatic host and male protagonist for the sake of ratings (he is also crazy because he is about to be fired because he is too old), and after being attacked by him, he is forced to "improve", resulting in The male protagonist's ratings declined seriously, so the TV station asked terrorists to assassinate him in order to dismiss him without losing face, which made a wave of popularity by the way. ② In a traditional melodrama with excellent image quality such as light and shadow, editing, composition, narrative rhythm, etc., the boss brainwashes the male protagonist, the male protagonist is assassinated and other paragraphs are handled very well. ③ Create a sense of realism with very little off-screen soundtrack and a lot of live shooting. ④Unfortunately, the character image is too homogenized, which makes the story seem a bit theme-first.

  • Sherman 2022-04-20 09:01:35

    Grey sorrows & dark secrets of the industry, savvy screenwriting, a foxy executive with tiger's ambitions, and some overdramatic lunatic acting build a period piece articulating its anger that hardly dies out. So a brain-open speech given by God.

Network quotes

  • [Jensen leads Beale into the conference room]

    Arthur Jensen: Valhalla, Mr. Beale. Please, sit down.

  • Max Schumacher: Howard, I'm taking you off the air. I think you're having a breakdown, require treatment.

    Howard Beale: This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity. I'm imbued, Max. I'm imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all. It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things. To flowers, birds, all the animals of the world. And even to some great, unseen, living force. What I think the Hindus call prana. But it's not a breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering and beautiful sensation. It is the exalted flow of the space-time continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and... of such loveliness. I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth. And you will not take me off the air for now or for any other spaceless time!